What a Rush! by velocicrapper

Photography • Aviation • posted on Jan 26, 2006

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Taken at the Planes of Fame Museum Airshow 2005 (May 21-22) at Chino Airport in Chino, California. For more warbird images, please visit http://www.warbird-photos.com The North American P-51D Mustang "Wee Willy II" owned by the rather famous aviator Steve Hinton takes to the sky with a Member Supported Flight passenger in the backseat. The Air Museum offers all members the chance to purchase a member supported flight in a variety of warbirds at the Museum. The North American P-51D Mustang 'Wee Willy II' actually spent most of it's life as a heavily modified racer in the Reno Air Races. Known very well as the 'Red Baron', she crashed one year at the races while being piloted by Steve Hinton and was just about totalled the aircraft. Thankfully, Steve was able to walk away. The Aircraft's parts and wreckage was taken back to the Planes of Fame Museum and worked on by the world famous 'Fighter Rebuilders' and using other P-51D Mustang parts and pieces, a new P-51D Mustang was built. This time, it was not for racing, but for a flyable museum piece at the Planes of Fame Museum. She flies very often to this day, many times she's flown a few times monthly! I was experimenting with a very slow shutter speed for this shot. I knew she was going to fly, and since it was before the airshow started, I set the Shutter Priority mode to a very slow shutter speed. The result was out of 6 burst images taken as she took off, only this one came out. Even with Image Stabilizer, it's hard to pan exactly with the aircraft at that speed with that slow of a shutter! Taken with a Canon Rebel XT EOS 350D (8mp) with a Canon 100-400mm USM IS F4.5L Lens.

Comments (10)

cujoe_da_man

1:08AM | Thu, 26 January 2006

o wow, a great image for an awsome peice of aircraft, very good capture here

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Death_at_Midnight

1:09AM | Thu, 26 January 2006

Excellent shot! You captured one of my favorite aircraft!

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Zachary_Hunt

4:59AM | Thu, 26 January 2006

Impressive capture sir, as you rightly put very difficult t capture a moving object with a slow shutter speed but you have achieved it here with grace and character. Blessed Be

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